What on earth are investors supposed to do when T-Bonds offer almost zero income? Interest rates are now so low that the price-risk in long-term Treasury bonds is too great. Ben Bernanke…
Although stock buybacks have never been among our most preferred methods of returning capital to investors, stock repurchase plans can indicate to investors that a company’s management believes the ship is not…
Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Tuesday morning. We are tracking news and moves in shares of ARM Holdings (NASDAQ: ARMH), General Electric Company (NYSE: GE), JP Morgan Chase…
The market has brutalized many great companies and we are seeing the mayhem reach a cycle-peak in the VIX if the history of the market holds up after hitting 48.0 yesterday during…
Standard & Poor’s may have done the inevitable move of a U.S. credit ratings downgrade and it may have followed with the downgrade of the insurance companies and with many government agencies…
Credit Suisse (NYSE: CS) cut 2,000 jobs as the bank’s results faltered (Reuters) Investors tried to move to safe investments as a default became more likely (Reuters) A new Boehner plan will…
Prior to its earnings release after markets close today, First Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) has issued two press releases touting the current and future performance of its thin-film cells and modules. Neither…
There is a paradox when it comes to investing… All long-term portfolios need to have exposure to water investments, yet the reality is that investing in water is just not very simple…
The odds that the U.S. will default on its debt on or after August 2 increase each day. Some credit analysts believe the odds are in favor of insolvency. In the event…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Monday morning. Calpine Corporation (NYSE: CPN) Raised to Buy at BofA/ML. Computer Sciences…
More than a year ago the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued a proposed rule for planning and paying for upgrades to the national electricity grid. The agency released its final rule yesterday…
This is the Twitter-24/7 Wall St. market report for July 22, 2011. These tweets are a sign of which companies the Twitter universe is interested in. Is there there is wisdom in…
GE (NYSE: GE) rode the strength of its largest divisions to an unexpectedly strong quarter. Revenue at it huge energy infrastructure business rose 9% to $10.4 billion. Revenue from the firm’s aviation…
Douglas A. McIntyre Some of the best known publicly traded companies in the world have stocks that will never reach their all-time highs again. Many of them are not troubled firms. In a number of…
Next week will mark the true ‘opening the floodgates’ for earnings season. We have given some brief earnings previews and added in color for the DJIA components set to report earnings in…
